---
name: "irmanager"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "irda-common"
version: "0.9.5-2"
release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/irmanager"
---

# irmanager(8)

is a user-space daemon which starts and stops Linux/IrDA services automagically

## NAME

irmanager - is a user-space daemon which starts and stops Linux/IrDA services automagically

## SYNOPSIS

**irmanager** *-d \[1-n\]*

## DESCRIPTION

This document is old, and not reflected latest status.

**irmanager** is a user-space daemon that is inspired and quite similar to the **cardmgr** used in the PCMCIA distribution. For example, if IrLMP discovers a remote device with IrLAN provider capabilities and no local IrLAN client has registred, then IrLMP will send an event to the IrManager and make it **modprobe** the module required. When application level clients are ready for communication and user-space configuration, they can also notify IrManager about this, so that it can execute the right script. For example will IrLAN send the event EVENT\_IRLAN\_START when the data channel is ready for exchanging Ethernet frames. When IrManager receives this event, it will execute */etc/irda/network start \<devname\>* to configure the network interface. If you use the RedHat variant of it, it will in turn execute */sbin/ifup\<devname\>*

## OPTIONS

- **-d**

  Start discovery process.

## EXAMPLES

- Example 1

  **irattach /dev/ttyS2 &**

  **irmanager -d 1 &**

## FILES

*/etc/irda*.

The IrManager will receive events from the kernel level side of the protocol stack. When the IrManager receives an event it can execute shell commands and scripts in */etc/irda*.

## DIAGNOSTICS

N.N.

## BUGS

N.N.

## SEE ALSO

*irattach*(1), *load\_misc*(8).

## AUTHOR

Werner Heuser \<wehe@snafu.de\>

## CREDITS

Thanks to the Linux/IrDA core team and the members of the Linux/IrDA mailing list